Tony Izzo

You ever notice how quickly MAGA moved on from Noem and Bondi after getting kicked to the curb?

@aakashgupta This is Geeks and Gamers. They're not exactly the bastion of entertainment journalism. When they gin up headlines like this, assume they're lying.

Disney is about to delete five years of canon because Rey doesn't move toys. The sequel trilogy did $4.47B at the box office. Force Awakens $2.07B, Last Jedi $1.33B, Rise of Skywalker $1.07B. The merchandise tells a different story. Star Wars merchandise peaked at $700M in 2015 when Force Awakens launched. By 2019, the year Rise of Skywalker shipped with a billion-dollar marketing push as the supposed finale of the Skywalker Saga, Hasbro's Star Wars line was doing roughly $150M. A 70%+ collapse during the trilogy's own theatrical run. Then 2020 happened. No new movies. A streaming show legally unavailable in most international markets. Hasbro's Star Wars revenue grew 70% year-over-year. One character named Grogu outsold three years of sequel-trilogy merchandise. The sequel cast specifically can't move inventory at any price point. Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, Holdo: Walmart clearance for years. Diamond Select's president said sales on TFA and TLJ products "were not too strong." Hasbro silently stopped producing Rise of Skywalker figures mid-line. There is no mass-market action figure for Poe, Finn, Lando, unmasked Kylo, Palpatine, or Leia from that movie. The licensees gave up before the trilogy finished releasing. The Lucasfilm acquisition was a $4.05B bet on the merchandise flywheel that built modern Hollywood toy licensing. Kenner's best year selling Original Trilogy toys, adjusted for inflation, outperformed the entire Disney era combined. That's the asset Disney bought. Galaxy's Edge runs the same play. Over $1B per park to build a Star Wars land set on a sequel-era planet nobody cared about. Both parks underperformed projections. The Mandalorian-themed expansion now under construction is the admission. If the rumor lands, this is the most expensive retcon in entertainment history. Five years of IP development written off because the licensees voted with their order books. Luke, Han, Leia, Vader, Boba, Mando, Grogu, Ahsoka generate revenue. The sequel cast generates returns.

@HMBohemond This is Geeks and Gamers. Not exactly a bastion of honest journalism.

I predicted this exact thing would happen, though they're going about it differently than what I predicted. Rather than quietly ignoring the Sequel Trilogy until they can shuffle it under the rug forever, they're going to use the "World Between Worlds" introduced in Rebels to physically remove the Sequels from the timeline. Officially turning them into an AU directly via the lore. It's still a rumor, but it's one similar to rumors that Avengers: Doomsday will be used to sever phases 4-6 from the timeline. Preserving the films without letting them further taint the setting. You can expect similar drastic measures from major franchises looking to save themselves over the next few years.

@mjarbo Seeing Finn, Poe and Rey actually going on a mission together was neat. This trilogy didn't fully utilize their dynamic so it was cool to see here.

Say something nice about The Rise of Skywalker I dare you #maythe4th #starwars

Trump is basically this when it comes to posts like these:

@MySharona1987 @BenjaminCrew1 She did. According to her, him losing his bid for President pretty much broke him and latching onto Trump was a meal ticket for relevancy. How do you think that turned out?

@BenjaminCrew1 Did his ex-wife say it was his failed 2008 presidential run that started the downward spiral? Trump made things way worse but it didn’t really start with him.

Rudy Giuliani, one of the fascinating Americans of our time. Clowned on for being unable to stop cheating on his wife, briefly becomes the most respected man in the world, then again clowned on for being unable to stop cheating on his wife while also melting

@CsabaSzekely7 @historyinmemes Hillary be all like:

@historyinmemes Hillary Clinton encouraged supporters to "Pokémon Go to the polls"

Hillary Clinton playing a Nintendo Game Boy on April 6, 1993. She later admitted in an interview that she became “addicted” to it while staying with her father during an extended hospital stay.

@ArtCandee Bill Maher snuggles up to him and still gets thrown under the bus. What a surprise.

Donald Trump is big mad about Bill Maher. 🙄

@AzPetrich They have Rafael Edward Cruz but he's white enough by their standards despite being half Cuban.

Hey MAGA, I'm just curious. If you insist on calling the former president Barack Hussain Obama, why don't you call the FBI Director Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel???

The funny thing about ogreman John Getterman being a Fox News pundit at this point is how the very same station made fun of him when he had his stroke.

Ahhh but will he condemn Hank Pecker?

@covethetmlfan @focaltraveller @KyleKulinski Kyle isn't the one who sucks off billionaires and gave Trump a hot stone massage.

@TonyIzzo2 @focaltraveller @KyleKulinski LOL you think thats how it went? Kyles gone bat shit crazy and burned that bridge. He didnt 'cut him off'.

Can't wait for Joe Rogan to bring this up and give Tim Walz credit, considering he spread about 48 negative and fake stories about him during the election. I'm sure he'll be fair and objective right??

@esjesjesj Exactly. She's little more than a prop to them.

I told you that her family specifically requested people didn’t share images of her dying online because they didn’t want her remembered that way and you stopped doing it for a while but now you’re just doing it again because you don’t give a single fuck about her at all.

@ManaByte Not only that, Carrie Fisher died while making the sequels we do have. Decanonizing them might just dump all over her memory.

All the people saying that Lucasfilm should de-canonize the Sequel Trilogy and make the Zahn trilogy as movies need to explain how you're supposed to make a movie set five years after Return of the Jedi with Luke, Han, and Leia still as young as they were at the end of ROTJ without recasting (which they'd reject), without CGI/AI (which they'd reject), and in live action in 2026.

@focaltraveller @KyleKulinski Good luck with that. Kyle has pretty much cut off Rogan at this point.

@KyleKulinski Well, if you hadn't burned your bridges maybe you could have said this on his podcast.

@Googleitbroseph @adammanross He ran against Mitt Romney. When your opponent is a real life Thurston Howell the 3rd coupled with being a brilliant campaigner and you have incumbency, there's no way in hell you're losing power.

@adammanross If he was exposed as a centrist then he won in 2012 as a centrist

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left

@gayguycandleco I guarantee you this remark is why Giuliani hates him so much.

Bro was lowkey hilarious in his prime.

When you can't refute your opponent's point so the only response you've got is "no you." I'm sure she appreciates the exposure though.

@devorydarkins Gotta love how you can't refute her point so all you have is putting words her mouth and saying "no you."

It's comedy listening to Jennifer Welch actually describer herself. Based on all accounts she is truly racist, narrow-minded, hateful and batshit crazy!

When it comes to Tom Steyer running for governor, he's got a pretty awesome platform and good on him for being a class traitor? However, it's kinda curious as to whether or not it's hypocritical to support a billionaire while saying fuck billionaies at the same time.